Time to Point Fingers: Karl Rove in Pennsylvania!?

I can’t wait for the Republican fingerpointing to begin. I can’t wait so much I want to start it myself!

My Monday-morning questions for Karl Rove: Why didn’t you sacrifice everything else to try and hold the Senate? Howard Dean had a 50-state srategy, you should have had a 5-state strategy: Montana, Virginia, Missouri, Read More

Brown, Casey, Menendez…

Democrats are now one-third of the way to claiming the Senate for the first time since 2001, with Sherrod Brown knocking off Mike DeWine in Ohio and Bob Casey, Jr. dethroning Pennsylvania’a Rick Santorum. Neither of these results are surprising — Santorum has not led in a single public poll over the last Read More

Eye of Mordor

Rick Santorum explains the security situation in Iraq and how it affects the safety of Americans, using lessons he learned reading (or watching) The Lord of the Rings.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said. “It’s being drawn to Iraq and Read More

Rudy’s Non-Litmus Test

RudyBlogger noticed (via this website) the following passage as part of a Rick Santorum bio on Rudy Giuliani’s campaign-y website.

Rick Santorum believes in a culture of life. He led the charge in the U.S. Senate to pass legislation to ban partial birth abortion, and also worked to pass the Born-Alive Read More

Gary Barnett: Friend of Santorum

When uber-developer Gary Barnett is not too busy purchasing a billion dollar piece of land or working on numerous upscale residential projects (The Stanhope, The Orion), he’s making political contributions.

The Politicker, out sister site, has a list of prominent New Yorkers who have been donating to Rick Santorum, the staunchly conservative Read More

New Yorkers for Santorum

The first quarter fund-raising numbers are beginning to trickle in, and once again Hillary Clinton is the big winner, raising a hefty $2 million a month each month from January through March. In a distant second place: Rick Santorum, whose war chest now holds $10 million, thanks to large GOP cash infusions — Read More

The Casey Problem

Naral-NY, the abortion-rights group, is about to endorse Mike Bloomberg.

Freddy, receiving an endorsement at City Hall from Councilwoman Letitia James a little while ago, was asked about this, and pointed out that Bloomberg supported President Bush and has given money to anti-abortion Senators.

Ferrer said Bloomberg “can’t have Read More